Finally ... a chance to catch up !!!
Having finally recovered from the frenetic activity associated with the Ice Show (just in time to prepare for the frenetic activity associated with Christmas) I thought that maybe I should post some of the 300-odd photos that my MOTH took of us at the show.
Unfortunately, due to issues with fog machines, spotlights, and skating being what it is (ie. people moving very fast in circles of varying sizes) a lot of the photos were a disaster.
We have rather a lot of photos of the piece of ice where either S or K were a split second before, several photos of the back of their heads, and more than a few of a S-sized blur as she whirled past. But I've picked out some of the better ones to give an idea ...
The premise of the whole show was Disney on Ice ... Mulan travelled through all the Disney fairy tales meeting a pile of characters from Aladdin through to Snow White.
First off there was a big opening scene with all the skaters in their different groups altogether. This is the bit before they headed onto the ice where the MOTH told the rugrats to "pose for the camera" ... check out the pout on S's best friend !!!!
The first scene the rugrats were in was Pocohantas, involving bigger kids dressed as trees, smaller rugrats dressed as animals, and K dressed as either a Christmas tree or a porcupine, depending on who you asked (grin) ...
S and the rest of her development group were "The Wind", complete with big long sticks and ribbons ...
There were a few other scenes in the middle ... Snow White, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins ... then Cinderella. First up were the mice, which (based on reaction) led us all to believe that we needn't have spent hours and hours rehearsing, all we needed to do to inspire the audience was be very very small, dress in something with ears, and simply show up on the night ...
Our ballroom scene followed ... that's me in the middle at the back in the tail-coat with my partner in the purple dress to the right. We didn't have enough boys for all the girls to dress as girls (despite the pressure put on the local boys ice hockey team !!!) and, seeing as I have short hair, it made more sense for me to be a boy than it did for my partner. I'd also like to point out that I was a damned sight warmer than she was (it's a little hard to wear thermals under a strapless ballgown !!!!) ...
Then it was back to the dressing room to prepare S for her final scene ... 101 Dalmatians ...
Just enough time to pose for the camera again before they were back on the ice ...
And then the big finale, where we all skated back out again and took our bows. At first we thought it would be fun to take a mouse with us, I mean, they're small and cute, right ? We had a defective mouse who couldn't skate very well (OK, OK, so she was only five) and kept falling down. It wasn't until later I found out that she was actually an expert, but enjoyed the "one, two, three ... swing !!!" thing that small children do when in between two adults !!!!!
And the highlight of the night ? Another mouse looking curiously at me and asking "Are you supposed to be a boy ?" At first I thought it was cute and said "Yes, we didn't have enough boys" ... but I stopped thinking it was cute right about the time she continued with "Is that cos you're not pretty enough to be a girl ?"
It was exhausting, but exhilerating ... and I can't wait for next year !!!
2 Comments:
well
ive seen yer boobs
now ive seen you in a tux
hmmmm
being a bloke i prefered the boobs (hi Kyle !!!! hehe)
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